- “Pure Southern” by James Robert Smith, in which a traumatized ex-soldier guarding a warehouse takes on the mobsters who want to rob it;
- “Big Davey Joins the Majority” by Barry Graham;
- and “Denny” by Kit Reed, a heartbreaking tale of two parents and their son who have three very distinctive perspectives on family life, the threat of teenage violence, and kids growing up.
- More new things this week: Bullettime by Nick Mamatas (“David Holbrook exists everywhere and nowhere . . . “),
- Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye by Paul Tremblay (” FARM WANTS YOU!”),
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #115 (stories by James L. Sutter and Leslianne Wilder),
- Innsmouth Magazine Issue 12 (a girl that cannot die, a bizarre birth and a guest appearance by Nyarlathotep.”[!]),
- and Shimmer Magazine Issue 16 with “thirteen elegant and original stories.”
- Apex Magazine featuring Sarah Monette and others.
- The Second Ghost Story Megapack featuring M.R. James et al.
- Clarkesworld Magazine (Erzebet YellowBoy, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Greg Kurzawa).
- Nightmare Magazine (Ted Kosmatka, Sarah Langan, a reprint by Margo Lanagan, and a feature interview with Caitlín R. Kiernan).
- Lightspeed Magazine (C.C. Finlay, Carrie Vaughn, Genevieve Valentine; reprints from Maureen F. McHugh, Marly Youmans, and John Crowley; interviews with Lois McMaster Bujold and Steven Erikson; ebook-exclusive novella by Tad Williams; an excerpt of Karen Lord’s new novel The Best of All Possible Worlds).
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies (James L. Sutter and Leslianne Wilder).
- Locus (Year in Review issue with essays, the Locus 2012 Recommended Reading List, interviews with Catherynne M. Valente and Brian Slattery, etc.).
- More, always more.
BCS 6th Anniversary Ebook Sale
Tags: BCS, Beneath Ceaseless SkiesIt’s BCS anniversary sale time again! See below for details from editor Scott H. Andrews. – Michael To celebrate the sixth anniversary of BCS and our new ebook anthology The Best of BCS, Year Five, we’re having another ebook sale! 
Buy a BCS ebook subscription or the new Best of BCS Year Five, and you’ll get a coupon code inside the book for 30% off all BCS anthologies and back issues.
That includes all our previous anthologies, Best of BCS Year One, Year Two, Year Three, Year Four, and our steampunk anthology Ceaseless Steam. It includes back issues of BCS at Weightless Books: all 155 issues of BCS going back to #1 in 2008, including one not available at any other retailer or on our website. It includes the 25-issue bundles of back issues. It also includes all BCS subscriptions; you can use the coupon to renew your subscription no matter when it’s set to expire.
The Best of BCS, Year Five has seventeen stories for only $3.99, including ones by Richard Parks, Gemma Files, Seth Dickinson, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, and more. It includes three stories that made the Locus Recommended Reading list, one that was a finalist for the British Science Fiction Association Awards and the Parsec Award, and one that won the World Fantasy Award.
BCS ebook subscriptions are only $15.99 for a whole year/26 issues (that’s less than 30 cents a story!). Subscribers can get issues delivered directly to their Kindle or smart phone (any device with an email address), and they get the issues early, a week before the website.
Subscribers will get our Sixth Anniversary Double-Issue, featuring Richard Parks, K.J. Parker, and Aliette de Bodard, a week before the website, including two stories which won’t be released on the website until two weeks later.
The ebook subscriptions and anthologies are also a great way to support BCS–all proceeds go to pay our artists and authors.
BCS 150th Issue Ebook Sale!
Tags: BCS, saleIn celebration of their 150th issue, Beneath Ceaseless Skies is having an ebook sale!
We now have every single past issue of BCS, from #1 to #150, including many that aren’t available anywhere else–not in the Kindle Store or on the BCS website.
These issues include authors such as Aliette de Bodard, Yoon Ha Lee, Marie Brennan, Richard Parks, Seth Dickinson, Marissa Lingen, Chris Willrich–at least three stories by all of those authors–as well as Holly Phillips, Gemma Files, Saladin Ahmed, BSFA Award finalist Tori Truslow, World Fantasy Award finalist Emily Gilman, and World Fantasy Award winner Gregory Norman Bossert.
You can buy them as single issues, but for this sale we’re also offering them as bundles of 25 issues, for only $9.99. That’s less than 50 cents an issue!
Stock up on older issues that have never before been released on ebook, or get all the issues you missed before you started subscribing. Or buy them all, to get the full set of 150 issues and support BCS at the same time. All proceeds go to pay authors and artists for their work.
Two more interesting magaziney things
Tags: BCS, Prime Books, The DarkTwitter tells me
Issue 130 of @BCSmagazine, on its way to subscribers, contains an easter egg. What is it? Subscribe and find out: http://t.co/G5SMRF3KuM
And . . .
Sean Wallace is launching a new magazine! October will see the first issue of The Dark — “a bi-monthly magazine co-edited by Jack Fisher and Sean Wallace, with each issue featuring all-original short fiction, including strange and unusual stories by award-winning authors as Lisa L Hannett, Nnedi Okorafor, Angela Slatter, Rachel Swirsky, and many more.”
Australian horror, new myths
Tags: BCS, Livia Day, Midnight Echo, Mythic DeliriumActually, last week was all about Australia mystery as Livia Day’s A Trifle Dead shot to the top of the charts here no doubt helped by the booktrailer. If only books came with cake. Yum. Anyway, this week we added the new issue, #9, of Midnight Echo, the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association. Seems like a steal at $2.99 US for 100 pages or horror stories, interviews, &c. Also this week, the indefatigable Scott Andrews sent us the latest issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #127, featuring stories by Greg Kurzawa and Dan Rabarts.
Perhaps the biggest news this week was Mythic Delirium Books‘s launch of their two new titles: Clockwork Phoenix #4 edited by Mike Allen, and the (re)launch of Mythic Delirium #0.1 (Ken Liu et al), wherein the 15-year-old speculative poetry journal relaunched (thanks to their excellent Kickstarter) as a quarterly digital magazine that mixes poetry with offbeat fiction. Annual subscriptions to the new Mythic Delirium are only $9.95 for 4 issues.
I’m happy to say we sold tons of the paper edition of Clockwork Phoenix #4 at Readercon and hope readers here will check it out, too.
BTW: here’s Weightless on Twitter.
Welcoming The Big Click
Tags: BCS, Nick Mamatas, Paul Tremblay, Shimmer Magazine, The Big Click
Noir fans, this is your time.
The kids are reading it courtesy of Lemony Snicket and Holly Black. The movies keep going back to it. And now here’s a new magazine devoted to it. This week we’re happy to welcome The Big Click edited by Jeremiah Tolbert (readers may fondly remember his earlier magazine, The Fortean Bureau). The latest Issue, # 6, has three stories:
And I’m happy to say you can get all the back issues here and dedicated readers can sign up for The Big Click: One Year Subscription. There are six 3-story issues a year featuring “noir, tales of the criminal lifestyle, confessional fiction, peculiar literary specimens, and great characters.”
If you like the sound of that, check out How to Greet Strangers: A Mystery by Joyce Thompson, where “the Bay Area welcomes a new detective: he’s black, he’s spiritual, he’s stunning. And he’s in great danger.”
That should take care of the weekend.
Although tonight, if all goes as planned (hey, often it doesn’t), we’re off to our friend and neighbor Robert Redick’s reading/party at Amherst Books celebrating the publication of the fourth & final volume in “The Chathrand Voyage Quartet”—The Night Swarm. Earler volumes (in order) are The Red Wolf Conspiracy, The Ruling Sea, & The River of Shadows.
FTR sale, new magazines, and, at last, Was
Tags: Angélica Gorodischer, Apex Magazine, BCS, Clarkesworld, Crawford Award, Geoff Ryman, Karin Tidbeck, Lightspeed, Locus, Nightmare
Hey fairy tale fans, we’re running a week long sale on all titles from Fairy Tale Review. Use the coupon FTR when you check out and save 25% on Joy Williams’s Changeling, the Fairy Tale Review Special, and more.
Congratulations to Karin Tidbeck whose debut collection Jagganath just received the Crawford Award!
New this week:
And, at last! Today is the ebook release day for one of the best, saddest, deepest, most heartbreaking novels we know, Was by Geoff Ryman.
And for instant gratification, you can read an excerpt from another Small Beer title, Trafalgar, right now at Tor.com: “The Best Day of the Year.”
Crossed Genres, BCS Science-Fantasy
Tags: BCS, Crossed Genres
This week we’re pleased to add five new titles from the excellent Crossed Genres, until recently a genre-juxtaposing online magazine, now a small press publisher of genre-juxtaposing anthologies like Subversion and Fat Girl in a Strange Land.
March 2012 is Science Fantasy Month at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Issue #90, out today, features stories and interviews from Chris Wilrich and Anne Ivy, and rumor has it there will be some themed book giveaways as well.
Still to come this month, new issues of Something Wicked and Apex, even more science fantasy, and hopefully lots of other interesting stuff. Plus, Gavin returns from the night side with tales of reverse-draining toilets.